One of the classic problems in industrial engineering is the buffer allocation
problem. The objective of the buffer allocation problem is to maximize some line
output, typically throughput, through the allocation of bu ...

Rising energy demands and the continual push to find more energy efficient technologies have been the impetus for the investigation of waste heat recovery techniques. Diesel engine exhaust heat utilization has the potent ...

Several efforts have recently been made to relate
the displacement of swimming three-link systems over strokes
to geometric quantities of the strokes. In doing so, they provide
powerful, intuitive representations of t ...

Chemical and structural heterogeneity and the resulting interaction of coexisting phases can lead
to extraordinary behaviours in oxides, as observed in piezoelectric materials at morphotropic phase boundaries and relaxo ...

Future engineers need to be competitive in today's expanding global industries. They must have capabilities beyond standard engineering practice. In an attempt to develop students capable of working in a globally distrib ...

The Production Switching Heuristic (PSH) developed by
Mellichamp and Love (1978) has been suggested as a more
realistic, practical and intuitively appealing approach to
aggregate production planning (APP). In this res ...

Southern pine and Douglas fir veneer samples were dried in air
under the following conditions: air temperatures were 350, 600, and
750°F; air velocities were 50, 100, and 150 feet per second, and
angles of impingement ...

A multistage production system consists of a number of
production stages that are interrelated, that is the output
from one stage forms input to the next stage. There are
constraints associated with each stage as well ...

The Oregon Department of Transportation is responsible for many steel deck truss bridges containing connection details that are fatigue prone. A typical bridge, the Winchester Bridge in Roseburg, Oregon, was analyzed to ...

This dissertation addresses a hybrid-flow shop scheduling problem with dual resource constraints in a supply chain. Most of the traditional scheduling problems deal with machine as the only resource. However, other resou ...

Cellular Manufacturing Systems (CMS) have claimed many advantages over traditional job shop processes. Some of the advantages reported by several users of CMS are reduction in throughput time, reduction in WIP inventory, ...

This research employed both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to
explore the impact of mobile wireless technology (MWT) in higher education classrooms.
The methodology was developed using systems engi ...